Fifteen decisive battles of the world by Edward Shepherd Creasy(
Book
)404
editions published
between
1850
and
2016
in
6
languages
and held by
3,334 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Undoubtedly the most famous work of military history of the nineteenth century, Edward S. Creasy's Fifteen decisive battles
of the world has been read and re-read for close to 150 years. It is not only the authoritative account of each battle that
makes Creasy's work such a classic--it is his command of narrative, his interest in human struggle, his profound deductions
as to effects of the battles, and his striving after truth. Furthermore, his selections seem as wise and well-considered today
as when Fifteen decisive battles first appeared in 1851: Nobody since has made better ones, nor given us better accounts.
Apart from the scholarship and literary skill of Creasy's book, there is another reason it has endured: Creasy was essentially
fair-minded. He had been a judge, and when he became England's great military critic and historian, he maintained a thoroughly
judicial attitude. He was not a British partisan, nor French, nor German--he was a cosmopolitan observer of great events.
Out of 2300 years, Creasy only found fifteen battles which he called decisive in the highest sense. He chose them not for
the number of killed and wounded, nor for their status in myth and lore, but because they fundamentally changed the course
of world history. In doing so, he made his book a miniature military history of the western world, a classic that will repay
continued study for generations to come, as it has for generations

Turkey by Edward Shepherd Creasy(
Book
)13
editions published
between
1906
and
1939
in
English
and held by
136 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
The history is organized in strictly chronological order and is primarily a political history. The contents include: rise
of the Ottoman Empire from 1250-1520; the culmination of power under Suleiman and the beginning of the decline 1520-1699;
the decline of the empire 1703-1792; and modern Turkey, 1792-1928. Much of the modern Turkey section is focused on the years
during and preceding World War I. The Balkan States history focuses almost exclusively upon those nations during and after
WWI. "The Balkan Problem 1453-1914" begins this history. Each chapter subsequently focuses on a state during and after the
war

Twenty decisive battles of the world by Joseph B Mitchell(
Book
)7
editions published
between
1964
and
2004
in
English and German
and held by
37 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Includes material on the battles of Marathon, Syracuse, Arbela, the Metaurus, Teutoburger Wold, Ch^alons, Tours, Hastings,
Orleans, the Armada, Blenheim, Poltava, Saratoga, Valmy, Waterloo, Vicksburg, Sadowa, First Marne, Midway, and Stalingrad